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All About Eggs
This warmer gets students scanning for information about an Easter craft or custom, completing a table about it and using persuasive language to introduce it to their partner. Pre-Intermediate

It's All Relative...
We use non-defining relative clauses to give extra information about the person or thing. It is not necessary information. We don’t need it to understand who or what is being referred to. This warmer gets students thinking about sentence formation and non-defining clauses.Intermediate

I'm not very good at...
This warmer encourages students to say what they hope or plan to do in the future and gets them to practice using gerunds at the same time.Pre-Intermediate

And The Winner Is...
This warmer is designed to be done before the U.S. Academy Awards. It gets students to practice arguing for or against something, to discuss choices, and to express opinions.Pre-Intermediate Lesson Updated: 11 February 2017

Famous Cities - Port Vila, Vanuatu
This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to find out about Port Vila and the Pacific. Students will scan for information in separate articles and then share and discuss what they have learnt.Intermediate

Silly Story (1)
This warmer gets learners chatting! This is a good ice-breaker for the presentation of simple past for the narration of a story and the language of shopping.Intermediate

You Really Need This!
This ice-breaker gets learners practicing using persuasive language as they make an advertising pitch.Intermediate

Olympic Sports Controversies
This ice-breaker is great for practicing reading for understanding, asking and answering questions and talking about sports and the Olympics.Upper-Intermediate

The Saddest Movie I Have Ever Seen
This warmer is an enjoyable way to talk about movies and use of superlative adjectives and the present perfect simple.Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate

World Leaders: Nelson Mandela
This warmer gets students to read and think about the life of a famous person and focus on the use of prepositions.Upper-Intermediate Lesson Updated: 5 December 2013

The Real Heroes
Encouraging students to think about real heroes - people who make a difference in the community.Pre-Intermediate

Create Your Own Superhero
A warmer that promotes discussion and creativity and helps students use and review adjectives and the simple present tense.Elementary

Obstacle Course
If you have active students who like to move around, this will help them review prepositions of place and movement and movement and motion verbs.Elementary

How Would You Like To Pay?
This warmer is a four-part activity that gets learners practicing the language for buying something in a store. Functional language exercises, dialog and roleplay work.Intermediate

Famous People: Prince William, Kate and George
This warmer gets students to look for specific information about Britain's future King and his wife Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, to complete a table.Intermediate Lesson Updated: 26 July 2013

Quirky Museums
This warmer gets students scanning for information about unusual museums, completing a table about them and using persuasive language to encourage other students to like their museums.Intermediate

Famous Cities - Rio de Janeiro
This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to find out about the city of Rio de Janeiro, capital of samba and Carnival.Intermediate

All About Heads
This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to extend their vocabulary and have practice looking at meanings in context.Intermediate

World Leaders: Xi Jinping, President of China
In this lesson, students are asked to scan a Reuters news article to complete a table of information about the President and then compare their answers in pairs.Upper-Intermediate

What Will I Cook?
This warmer gets students practising using going to and will as future forms and enjoying planning a cooking session.Upper-Intermediate

Spooky Hotels
This warmer gets students scanning for information about haunted hotels, completing a table about them and using persuasive language to encourage other students to like their hotels.Intermediate

Famous Cities - London
This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to learn more about tourist activities in London.Intermediate